"'Til Forever, on it goes. Through the circle, fast and slow. I know, it can't stop, I wonder."
-Creedence Clearwater Revival
-Creedence Clearwater Revival
You will lose everything. Your family, your friends, your enemies, your belongings, your mind, your body, your memories, your recollection of any of this. But you will gain the universe, as you have before (and will again).
And the things you've tasted here in the ordinary moments, the everyday. The things you've seen, the day, shone by the sun. The things you've felt and heard but never were able, may never be able, will never be able, to fully explain. The things you've tasted here are like things you've never thought you'd know - or wouldn't know how to. But somehow you've come to know them, to understand. And you use your understanding to float in space, to live on.
Life is not a great climax. Life is not a grand crescendo. Life is consistent and eternal, but always changing - never the same, fleeting and new. Sameness breeds dullness and life is never dull. The mind can be dulled, the mind can go bored, but the world will go on.
Something deep inside of you will know of a constant wonder. Of this constant wonder. A wonder for the sake of it. The one you knew when you were born, the world you saw then. It still exists. It still begs your attention and interacts with you. Playful as it always was, always has been. Sending you signs and signals - the water drops in a morning shower, the way the sun gets in your eyes when you walk outside and know the animals and plants surround you. Still playing the game of life like the day before, and the day before that, and working towards the present.
The day before this you can recall, but that day is gone forever. A past revolution of the earth, burned off nitrogen from the sun. The sun has better things to do now. The sun has now to worry about. It loves now. Feeds it. As we feed off it. As we are and have been for a long time.
An infinite amount of memories and specific instances, glimpses, make up the collective movement that is all life. All of life is moving together, like a reflex or a push.
A fishbowl as a microcosm of the world itself. We forget this. That we're in it. We get so caught up in things - school, work, goals, ideas, ideals, hopes - past, future. And still the whole time life just slips on and we enter the (revolving circle).
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
Fantasy land of false pleasures, distractions. The mind's taking you into its tornado until it runs you out, nothing left. And you flee to it - into it - go further into the funnel cloud. Are we afraid to improve ourselves? We can absorb energy. So why not use it for the good? Why not use it for harmony? Why not use it to grease the friction between us and enforce the synergy so as to become a better species?
Cooperation is our middle name. We've used it for millennia to get where we're at today. So why can't we cooperate with everyone and anywhere, all the time. Why do we pick and choose? Why get lost in our created world of nations, tribes, sides, black and white?
Being is understood as it is.
Being is understood as being is.
Being is as it is.
Being is as being is.
Relinquish the understood.
We are the beings and we know we're the beings prior to this
Prior to this awe
Prior to this bend towards relinquishing confusion
Prior to this trying to understand
Relinquish the understood.
We must envision our world now and new. We must not think that things will be resolved in the future. We have to force those resolutions today through compassion, communication, and humbleness. To Day.
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
-Plato
To the Day.
Will we exist in animal darkness forever? Always afraid of our neighbor, our shadow, ourselves, us? Or will we embrace our birth and our death as one, and see the truth that surrounds us, the life that's around us?
People lived in ignorance for hundreds of thousands of years - the wrong kind of mindlessness. Now we can be mindless without being ignorant. The perfect form. A perfect storm to unite us as one.
One day oneness...
One day oneness...
No, Today!
To Day
Oneness
To Day
Oneness
See your birth, see your death, see every moment and movement of your life - the best, the worst, the faith, the hopelessness. All in the collective. A collective embrace. Embrace it all. It finally makes sense. Doesn't it? This is us and we are now.
THIS is US and WE are NOW
No Other Way.
You can get lost in your hopes, you can get caught in your fantasies, but still:
No Other Way.
It just keeps going on within you, without you, in you, and out of you. And before you know it more time has passed. But when you take the time away, all that's passed is past. Let it go.
All that's past has passed.
You must embrace your death. You must see how eternal life is and how temporary too. How temporary death is and how you will live again and again and again. And you too are temporary.
You were a part of past civilizations, past tribes, past generations. But now you are apart from them. They are the past. Apart from the past. A part of the now.
Apart from the past. A part of the now.
The future is an ideal, an idea. It is: goals, hopes, standards, predictions. But it is not you. You are now. Just look in the mirror.
That *you* in the mirror is not the you of ten years ago. And it will not be the you ten years from now. That you is moving dust. Earth dust. Earth dust moving and feeding off earth to move. New cells and updated tissue. Organic, actual, tangible, beautiful. Something so fantastic it's incomprehensible. Each one of us is fleeting, but eternal as the whole. Each of us representing a place and space in an event, a current that is real. The current of life as the current moment we now live in.
An event suspended and supplying itself. Timelines are irrelevant, they pinpoint made-up things.
A moist, organic, untamed earth breeds a species that can reason. Whatever a species is, whatever reason is, this is an unlikely event. In a place that is mostly darkness, sun's light spins todays. To our Today. Plants spring up proud and unafraid, though they are fragile. Animals fight for their lives as if they'll live forever. And they will. Their dying will give them life. Your dying will give you life. Seeds renew our form.
Accept the death of everything, that everything you've surrounded yourself with, the stuff you thought made *you* will fade as your senses will. Will change, as you have. And back into the circle, back into the circle. Back into the circle you never left. But you must accept your death. You must realize your death so you can realize your life.
Without a crucifixion, there can be no resurrection. Without a death, there can be no hope.
This is why the bear defends her cubs, why the mother and father put their children before themselves. Why a plant's goal is to not only live but to bear the fruit that holds its seeds. They don't anticipate the death, they know it. They know it without realizing it, without reasoning it. To them it is as imperative as life. As perfect as life.
Without the death, there can be no life.
Without the life, there can be no death.
Without the light, there can be no darkness.
Without the darkness, there can be no light.
The sun shines light onto our lives and provides it to us. But without the night, without the darkness, what is there to see?
Your mind, your thoughts, your opinions, they're blocking the sunlight of your spirit. Getting in the way and make you a definition in a universe undefinable. Your spirit does not fear death, your spirit does not fear life. Your spirit walks into the dark and into the light with the same confidence. Like a plant or as an animal. The confidence of a determined being. Built for survival. Built for life.
And you can be like the animals - the animal you are - but without all the fear and instinct. You can have control once you relinquish control. You can have it all once you realize you must give it all up. Poignant, unimaginable, inescapable, real. That you'll die, that everyone will die. That you are an animal that wants to survive. That things are unpredictable. Use your reason to balance out your life, not block the things you are afraid to realize. Balance your mind and your life.
Beings built to experience life float around somewhere on a rock in the universe.
Playing music,
dancing,
crying,
laughing.
Totally unaware
that the medium is the message.
Enjoy your life instead of spending all your time preparing for its end. And make it better, so that others can know the joys you've felt in this. So that the most beautiful and timeless moments of your life - in truth, all of them - can be experienced in full by others. See your life as the naked life it is. Become a spiritual being in an animal world.
Your life. You're life. You are life. You are your life. And together we are life.
It's raining, it's snowing, there's a hurricane a'blowing. And here we are, just dancing and singing and crying and laughing. Earth keeps spinning. Sun keeps passing its light to us. So that we can see. So that we may be.
We have the ability to not only survive but to survive well and prosper. All of us. Universal peace, comfort, understanding, and harmony are a possibility. Possible if we use our utilities. Transient if we don't. The earth has given us everything to find ourselves, to reconnect with it, to survive, to communicate, to empower ourselves, and power ourselves too. But this is not a given. Just as our species has worked to get *here*, it must work to get *here* moreover, and moreover again.
So much giving by earth. So much taking by us. Will we return its gratitude or continue to block its sunlight, cowering behind our flags of ideas and our animal convictions. The earth demands our humbleness. The earth demands us, itself. That we work together towards survival. That we survive and make a heaven on earth. That we recognize our condition and embrace it, so as to rise above it and become aware.
The outer is communicating to us
Or is it through us?
It's through us and to us!
And we reflect it back!
The outer
around us
is a commune
to us
By communicating with it, we reflect ourselves - it - and become a new kind of lightness. The lightness of light, of day, of life.
We understand ourselves as beings - that "beings" are a thing already understood.
We understand our life as being - that "being" is a thing already understood.
Things understood.
Inherent.
Already.
A thing coming into being. A thing constantly unfolding. Without our help, guidance, or oversight. We are the universe experiencing itself, reflecting it, interacting with it, and going along with it. That's called life, brother.
Sister,
You will lose everything.
You will lose everything..
You will lose everything...
"You have to make horror your friend, or it will be an enemy to truly fear."
-Marlon Brando
You must embrace the fact you'll lose everything, realize there's no other way.
No Other Way = NOW = embrace = relinquishing of fear = acceptance of life = true living = NOW
There's so many distractions. So many ways to massage the mind and forget about what's really happening around you. Masses massaging their minds. People are being born and dying every minute, all over the world. Leaving and arriving, and you're one of them. And your time will come to die and be born again into this.
There's no explaining it. It just is. It's as clear as day. As clear as the world the sun's revealing to you. You just woke up into it and you can move and dance and feel it. Feel your abs absolutely ignite. You can do the tango. You can do the cha-cha. This is the big enchilada, mama, papa.
But we have to change the way we're doing things. Things can't go on like they are. People all over are sad and hopeless and it's a shame. You've seen it. I've seen it. You've felt it. I've felt it. We've all been there. Trying to hold on to things that won't hold. Points in time - people, ways of seeing the world.
We have to embrace the present, but not in that way. We have to embrace the present as an eternal thing, not as the animal situation we happen to find ourselves in right now. This will pass away. But it won't. Seeds carrying on our makeup and DNA.
We treat life as if it's just another condition, when in truth, it is the condition. You can't fix life with prescriptions, false hopes, fantasies, renditions. You have to take it as it is and realize it's not always going to be this way.
Either we're going to improve our condition, the world, our life, or we're going to go extinct. Either way things are going to go on. The sun's still going to shine. The entire human race could be wiped out, and the sun's still going to shine. It shines for life and for death, because the two are one in the same. There's alway something else out there dancing.
But who wants that? Who wants the human race to go down like that? It's taken us MILLIONS of years to reach this point. It took the earth BILLIONS of years of proper conditioning to get to this point, why sacrifice it over arguments that make no sense, over temporary feel-goods. Mind games that go nowhere except HERE... NOW... THIS. Either way it's going to happen, so why not go along with it?
Why the resistance? Why are we afraid of the life we're given?
Too much, too much... a heartbeat, lungs breathing, trembling... Life is a lot to handle, love. So we invent the some-day, the has-been. We distract ourselves with technology and fast-paced neural play.
The only way is today
